80] A NN U A L REGISTE R, 1816. 



of the finances of Ireland had been 

 gone into -o recently, and he had 

 himself received so patient a hear- 

 ing, and so much indulgence when 

 he submitted the late resolutions 

 to the House, that he should 3iot 

 now he justified in going over the 

 same ground. He should briefly 

 state the amoiuit of the supply 

 which was required for the year 

 1816, and the ways and means by 

 which he should propose to par- 

 liament to make provision for it. 

 It would be necessary only to ad- 

 vert shortly to those principles 

 which he had endeavoured to il- 

 lustrate on a preceding evening, 

 and though the measures whicli 

 he had declared it to be his inten- 

 tion to recur to as a source of 

 present supply had not yet re- 

 ceived tlie express approbation of 

 the House, yet the liberal view 

 which had been taken of the 

 whole of our financial situation, 

 and of the proceedings consequent 

 upon it, would justify him, he 

 trusted, in not proposing any new 

 taxes in aid of the services of the 

 present year. The estimated qiiota 

 of contribution for the year 1816 

 was 3,145,6561. British, as had 

 just been stated by his right hon. 

 friend, making in Irish currency 

 the sum of 3,407,7941. ; tiie charge 

 for interest and sinking fund on 

 the present debt is 6,826,7301. in- 

 cluding management, making the 

 total supplies 10,234,5241. The 

 state of the consolidated fund was 

 as follows : the surplus balance 

 in the exchequer on the 5th Ja- 

 nuary, was 1,448,0861., and there 

 was remaining of loan, raised in 

 Great Britain for the sei'vice of the 

 last year, 2,622,6411. British, be- 

 ingin Irish currency 2,841,1941. : 

 a total sum of 4,289,2801. From 



this he was to deduct arrears due 

 on that day. The arrear of con- 

 tribution for 1815, 2,942,2801. 

 British, being 3,187,4701. Irish: 

 the outstanding treasury bills and 

 lottery prizes, 28,8761., and for 

 inland navigations, and the ex- 

 j)enses of the office for the public 

 records, 81,3641., the total of the 

 arrears was 3,297,7101., which, 

 deducted from 4,289,2801. leaves 

 a balance of 991,5701. 



Having recapitulated the sup- 

 ply, he had to state the ways and 

 means. The surplus of the con- 

 solidated fund as appeared above, 

 991,5701, : the produce of the re- 

 venue he should only estimate at 

 6.000,0001.; one-third of the pro- 

 fit on lotteries which Ireland was 

 entitled to receive, 100,0001. ; re- 

 payment of sums paid by Ireland 

 for naval and military services 

 being advanced out of the revenue 

 of the last year, 111,9601. His 

 right hon. friend had before staled 

 the loan on treasury bills for which 

 an act has passed both houses 

 of parliament, of 1,700,0001. Bri- 

 tish, making 1,841,6661. Irish, 

 and that a further loan on treasury 

 bills would be required to be is- 

 sued in the present year for the 

 sum of 1,200,0001., being a 

 total of ways and menus of 

 10,245,1961. to meet the sup- 

 ply of 10,234,5241. 



The committee were aware of 

 the reduction of the revenue in 

 consequence of the repeal of that 

 portion of the malt duty in Ire- 

 land which corresponded with the 

 late war duty in Great Britain : 

 it was only what the act of union 

 had prescribed : but as a measure 

 of relief, sensibly as it might be 

 felt in this country, it would not 

 be less felt in that where the ex- 

 ample 



